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From: "Daniel Yaqob" <dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu>
To: fisseha@gerbil.cig.mot.com, ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu
Subject: majimariya
Status: RO

yonas,

   I began writing a small "to do" list from my conversation with yTna and
kept extending it (also forgetting itmes from the conversation).  See if
you can incorporate any of this into the text you have already been preparing
to go out next monday.  A few items here are probably a bit far fetched.


-dan'El


Revision of the August 1993 Report
==================================

Main Body
 + Update when Appendix A is complete

Appendix A
 + Rename "Characters Names" with SERA
 + Update Addresses with each new matrix
 + Compare 8 and 12 column matricies, detail strengths/weaknesses of
each
 + List characters to add, recommend addresses

Appendix B
 + Reexamine


Characters to Add to Fidelat

 + Punctuation
   <<, >>, Ethiopic Gemination Character, Ethiopic Question Mark

 + Voiced
   * Modeth Table   : various
   * Leslau (cheha) : k2e and Xe series
   * Italian ("lg") : Le series
   * Diqalawoc for K   : KWe -> KWE
   * Utility Diqalawoc : wWe -> wWE
   * Diqalawoc for G   : GWe -> GWE   (I honestly saw this in one book)

 + Numbers : 10,000

 + Glyphs & Ligatures
   * 7 diacritical marks to aid composition of unknown characters
   * possible ligatures for; mre, mru, mri, mra, mrE, `sre, `sru, `sri,
     `sra, `srE, `sm, `smre (etc), tata, many hams forms with (te), `hg..
   * Cohen : fused "gzi", another text had a fused "ye" with
something...